Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Congress assembled on Jan. 3 many a hard-money man's heart fluttered apprehensively lest Congress should inflict inflation on the U. S. Fortnight later Franklin D. Roosevelt dosed Congress with some homeopathic medicine, asked authority to devalue the dollar to the 50?-60? level. Thereupon the Congressional demand for inflation all but disappeared. Last week it made a new appearance. Inflationary bills, like bright red pock marks, appeared on several parts of the U. S. legislative body. Three bills in particular-proposals to give somebody something handsome-promised inflation. They loomed particularly large because they threatened...
...prepare a victim for 'questioning' the men are first beaten severely. They are either lashed for a period of about three hours with long telescopic steel whips which leaves their flesh in ribbons, or they are beaten with heavy rubber truncheons which do not break the skin but inflict terrible internal injuries from which the men rarely recover. The women are often given over to Nazi soldiers. We have in our possession medical reports of many cases of this sort...
...Aces" is not plagiarism, but anyone who remembers "Wings," "The Sky Hawk" and other pictures of their ilk, will begin to question the gentleman's veracity. One might even believe that "Ace of Aces" was produced when air-warfare extravaganzas--were in vogue, and that Radio Pictures hesitated to inflict it on audiences until more successful brethren had been forgotten. Engines roar, sputter, machine guns bark, and planes go down in flames, but the only redeeming feature is Richard Dix. Even worshippers of the red corpuscles however, might be induced to pity, the protruding jaw and the twisted snarl, which...
Enlightened though many Chinese statesmen are, the Nanking Government got around only last week to issuing a formal decree by which Chinese generals, provincial governors, mayors and all other local authorities were forbidden to inflict on Chinese newspapermen who arouse their ire "summary arrest, torture or execution...
...Attorney General of Georgia. He pointed to the 250-lb. warden of the Troup County chain gang, asked if his moon face was not "full of the milk of human kindness." He continued: "We are proud of our State and its history . . . not a vindictive people . . . not going to inflict punishment . . . make us the butt of ridicule . . . the people of Georgia need no defense...